It’s my favourite album from them since Good Apollo Volume 2, I don’t think they’ll ever release one as good as that again though.
As for this, good song writing, nice harmonies, catchy songs. First three things you want in a C&C album.

Anyone that says this band is shitty… needs to open their minds a little bit. These guys are some of the best musicians in semi-mainstream music today. Claudio is one of the most talented artists I’ve ever heard of. Great singer, writer, guitarist. These guys do more for music that pretty much ANY other mainstream rock band has done in the last 10-15 years in my opinion. Go listen to In “Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3″, that is one of my all time favorite albums, and at first I didn’t even like it, but the more I listened to it, the more and more I noticed how amazing it really was!

I’m with Andy. IKSoSE:3 is a masterpiece. When I first heard the band, it was The track The Suffering from good apollo 4, form fear etc.. I didn’t really care for it. Then I listened again, and bought Second Stage and IKSoSE to get a handle on the story. Listening to IKSoSE was an experience. Dark, dark lyrics, unbelievable structures, and of course Claudio’s range.

As a now C&C superfan, all I can say is start from the beginning (SSTB) and get the comics/books and delve into the story.

@Andy
Having an open mind doesn’t mean that they’ll like it any more than they do. I’ve heard loads of good things about this band so I decided to give this album a shot. It’s really not very good at all in my opinion. Just as “fripp” said, files deleted.

Each to their own and all that. People who try to enforce their views on others are, well, history will tell you what people think of them…

Time for CO & CA to hang up their instruments, been a fan since SSTB, IKSOSE3 is by far their best album. The following 2 are good, YOTBR isn’t bad, production could have been better, now we have this double album, total crap, I got Ascension, was quite disappointed, said to myself, Decension hopefully will be better, not the case, these are the worst albums released in the past 10 years as far as I’m concerned, slow, boring, dragging on tunes, with Claudio trying to sound more manly, just stick to the high pitch,lol. The only real good song I was looking forward to on Decension, is Iron Fist, this version of the song makes my fucking ears bleed, it has been butchered, especially at the end with all the bee bop over dubs, very disappointed in a band who made such great music up until 2012…..I literally can’t even listen to these albums, most albums I can pick out songs, make em favorites and listen to em, but these 2 albums, not one song catches my ears or attention. Way to go boys, not to mention their drummer is a huge flamer, I’d love to see him compete with Chris Pennie, they should kick him out again so he can go back to his shit rap project.

i tend to agree with keith. ive been a fan for years but by co&ca standards this is poor, really poor. doesnt reach any of the hieghts of the good apollo albums, hence really disappointed. so slow and down beat you might as well listen to u2 or something equally as drab. fuck it. such a shame.